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As I write this, Hurricane Irma is pummeling Florida, especially the West Coast, and has set her powerful sights on Georgia and Alabama and beyond in the next day or so. We are sending up prayers and good thoughts for… Continue Reading →

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I’m heading out on the highway for a few days at the beach so I will be out of touch for a bit. My destination doesn’t offer much in the way of sniffing, so I’ll have to bring my own.… Continue Reading →

Howdy, all you lovely Posse folks! We are heading to the beach a bit earlier than usual this summer, so I probably won’t be able to chat in comments as I’ll be in and out of town. But I would… Continue Reading →

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Listen here, Old Man Winter – we’ve had enough of you here in the Northern Hemisphere, and yet it looks like you won’t be done with us for a while yet. So let’s take a mental vacation and transport ourselves… Continue Reading →

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We talked about scent substitutes a while back and I wish I had thought to include this one. A lovely friend of mine at work has a growing interest in perfume; she enjoys Fracas and Kai, among others, but feels… Continue Reading →

Yum … body products in your favorite scent. If they are already available, lucky you. If not, well, we’ll keep hoping. As for me, if I had a dollar for every time I wished there was a Frederic Malle Carnal… Continue Reading →

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Hello GORGEOUS POSSE! Portia coming at you from Australia Perfume Junkies and you may remember that I like to take a daily bath? You may also remember that we went on an incredible bus tour in May, the Scentsation LA… Continue Reading →

Frederic Malle Promise is the latest release from the line. Inspired by the Middle East market, like Night, but without that high of a price tag, it has notes of rose, apple, rose, pink pepper, rose, clove, rose, patchouli, rose,… Continue Reading →...

It’s iris day! Three new iris releases or releasing soon – Atelier des Ors Iris Fauve, Coolife Le Sixième and Armani/Prive Iris Celadon. Can there be any better day on the face of the earth than when three great iris perfumes… Continue Reading →...

Hey, it’s February! That thing on the left, Cora, has had me a little busy the last week. Yes, that is a bee sweater. She just had a bath and needed to be warmed! I had planned to review that… Continue Reading →...

Frederic Malle perfume has been around since slightly before 2000. Founded on a philosophy of giving the perfumer a very broad idea of what they wanted, then letting the perfume create it. Then, the almost always unseen, unknown perfumer got… Continue Reading →...

Serge Lutens perfume has long been one of my favorite niche house perfumes. Since they are one of the few that have been around a long time not yet sold to LVMH or Estee Lauder (yeah, I know Shiseido owns them,… Continue Reading →...

Finding the best niche perfume lines is tough if you aren’t following all the perfume blogs or Facebook fragrance groups. The mainstream perfume industry has no problem making sure you know about their newest flanker – they spend millions (billions?)… Continue Reading →...

Frederic Malle Cologne Indelebile and its soaring sunshiny scent reminds me of some other orange blossom perfume, but which one? I scurried over to my oversized Orange Blossom Perfume post to get some ideas. L’Artisan Seville is gorgeous and a little naughty,… Continue Reading →...

We happily arrive at my favorite – iris perfume. Now, the thing you have to understand about Iris Perfume or What the Underpants are Hiding, they can’t capture the bloom’s smell except through headspace technology, and even that is pretty… Continue Reading →...

Many, many years ago, when I first was paying attention to notes in perfume and had some awareness of lily of the valley as a note, my immediate hatred cemented. I used to call it Satan’s Flower. My, how things… Continue Reading →...

How do I Find a New Perfume? … is one of the most common questions I hear over and over, phrased in a thousand different ways. It can vary from – “I used to wear Giorgio, but it smells like Mule… Continue Reading →...